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17:47 | 12 Mar 2010
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Michelle McGagh
Hector Sants said the regulator's treating customers fairly initiative relied on an 'old-style supervisory approach' as he outlined the regaulator's new 'proactive' approach to regulation.
14:04 | 12 Mar 2010
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Victoria Bischoff
The Financial Services Authority vows to be more proactive, do more to protect the consumer and toughen up on the mis-selling of financial products.
08:00 | 12 Mar 2010
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Iain Martin
The Guernsey financial regulator says it is up to consumers to read banks financial accounts to check if it is safe to deposit savings.
13:36 | 11 Mar 2010
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Michelle McGagh
The Financial Services Authority has teamed up with the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to create a new consumer protection committee.
08:20 | 11 Mar 2010
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Gill Wadsworth
Institutional investors must exercise their power responsibly if the UK is to avoid another financial crisis, economist Roger Bootle told the National Association of Pension Funds conference.
15:40 | 10 Mar 2010
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Gavin Lumsden
The Financial Services Authority has highlighted four areas, including quality of advice and governance, it says advisers should focus on during the upheaval of the next two years.
08:00 | 10 Mar 2010
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Michelle McGagh
A video on pension switching from IFAtv, the marketing arm of network Financial Ltd, that was posted on YouTube a year ago has only notched up 251 views - maybe Financial Ltd's advisers should have tuned in.
15:18 | 09 Mar 2010
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Charlie Parker, Tony Bonsignore
City minister and former Gartmore chairman Lord Myners thinks we should. Charlie Parker says no, Tony Bonsignore says yes.
15:49 | 05 Mar 2010
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Iain Martin
City of London Police has charged seven people with conspiracy to defraud over an alleged £66 million boiler room scheme.
16:48 | 04 Mar 2010
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Michelle McGagh
Chartered Insurance Institute director Peter Williams has warned the CII may not have enough examiners to cope with the volume of advisers trying to get to level four diploma level by 2012.
13:05 | 03 Mar 2010
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Iain Martin
(Updated) The FSA has fined Charles Palmer, the high-profile director of IFA network, Financial Ltd £49,000 over pension switching failings.
11:57 | 02 Mar 2010
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Nicholas Paler
Shares in Prudential continued to fall today, after it announced yesterday a $20 billion (£13.2 billion) rights issue to finance the takeover of AIG's Asian insurance business AIA.
09:52 | 02 Mar 2010
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Nicholas Paler
MetLife teams up with IFA training group Patterson Sales Training to aid advisers preparing for JO5 exams.
12:05 | 01 Mar 2010
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William Robins
(Update, adds AIFA reaction) The level of fines levied by the Financial Services Authority could treble under its new penalties policy.
11:16 | 01 Mar 2010
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William Robins
A recovery in the housing market and possible help from ‘corrupt solicitors’ has driven the first yearly increase in mortgage fraud since 2006, according to a report by the Credit Industry Fraud Prevention Service (Cifas).
10:44 | 25 Feb 2010
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Iain Martin
The Financial Services Authority has fined RSM Tenon Financial Services £700,000 for flaws with its advice on Lehman-backed structured products.
08:59 | 25 Feb 2010
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Michelle McGagh
Lloyds group remains top of the Financial Ombudsman Service's list of worst complaints offenders.
14:10 | 24 Feb 2010
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Tony Bonsignore
City regulator warns of a dramatic increase in the number of share scams aimed at UK investors.
13:08 | 24 Feb 2010
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Michelle McGagh
Peter Smith, head of investment policy at the Financial Services Authority, has told providers the regulator would be 'very concerned' to see the traded life policy market growing rapidly.
07:00 | 24 Feb 2010
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Maryrose Fison
The tone of the FSA's consultation paper on regulatory fees shows it has listened to critics of its proposal to switch the tariff from a headcount to an income basis
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